I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of

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What is interesting is I was saying to the audience you actually have been fighting for women

before the whole Me Too movement, before times up. You've been doing it in your own way.

You've been doing it internally and externally. Over 20 years.

And so what was the thunderbolt moment for you that caused you to say I must stand up

number one for myself and also do that for other women? How did women's rights become

a calling? I think that just by observing the situation of the world, not just one country,

and noticing that always we had it harder and we really did have it harder. And I think

the one thing that moved me the most was the thought of mothers, how hard it is to be

a mother and have children and have less opportunities and be constantly judged. And

it's not an easy road. So I started with children and mothers and then I became really passionate

about domestic violence because I think this is where everything starts. The cycle of

violence in the world starts at home. And it is also a reflection of what's happening

outside in the world when a woman cannot feel safe at home. You know, when the children

cannot feel safe at home, but when they take violence as the normality, even if it's

very painful deep inside of them, it becomes normality. So when they go out in the world,

they think that violence is a way for resolving problems or expressing anger. And then it

starts a ripple effect. Most of the people that have experience a home where they grew

up with violence, they repeat the cycle. So I thought one way to change the world was

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